Teacher Network newsletter: our teacher survey and how your students can put the world to rights

This week's newsletter is packed full of information and ideas - including the impact of our teacher survey and how to enter the Amnesty Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition

As one of our members said in an email to us this week, the Guardian Teacher Network Survey reminded hard-working teachers that they are part of a hard-working, thoughtful and supportive community. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Sarah Lee/Guardian

But for those of you who missed it the main points were these – you feel disrespected, often bullied, fed up with governments that don't trust you and despairing of the decline in parenting skills but most of you still love teaching. Most of all, you want to be treated as professionals, rather than infantilised by short-term government thinking and political philosophies.

There is an edited version of the nearly 70,000 words of comments you included in the survey. Do take a look and join in the conversation by leaving your own comments. Thanks so much to everyone who took part.

Nurturing future rights campaigners

The Guardian Teacher Network is very proud to support The Amnesty International Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition. Young people are asked to write a compelling human rights story either from personal experience or their interpretation of a human rights news story. Click here for the online entry form and terms and conditions of entry.

To give your pupils the tools they need to enter the competition Amnesty International has created a fascinating set of lesson plans and resources which you can view here.

Guardian Teacher Network member and teacher of last year's lower category winner, Victoria Najifi, says entering the competition was "the catalyst in the discovery of abundance of journalistic talent" at her school in Morpeth, Northumberland. Read more about Victoria's experience of entering the competition in our blog pages from Tuesday.

New teaching resources on the Network

A big thank you to all our members who uploaded lesson plans and resources this week. We enjoyed Wordcipher which is a fun way of developing vocabulary and word skills with a cryptic word puzzle. Ideal for secondary pupils.

Some fantastic RE resources from Sarah-Jane Devlin which are targeted at 11-14 year-olds are also new to the site. They include this worksheet on God's Relationship with Humans and this wonderful introduction to Buddhism. If you have some resources to share with your colleagues please don't be shy about putting them on the Guardian Teacher Network.

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